Delhis Humayunpur village to Hanumanpur BJP councilor wants to rename place

pChanging of names of places has been a thing since the BJP government had set foot and it does not seem to stopppThenbspBJPnbspcouncillor from Safdarjung Enclave Radhika Abrol Friday proposed changing the name of Humayunpur village in South Delhi to Hanumanpur This comes a day after Mayor of the South Delhi Municipal Corporation SDMC Mukesh Suryan gave an anticipatory approval to change the name of another urban villagenbspMohammadpur to MadhavpuramppThe renaming spree comes against the backdrop of next yearrsquos civic body polls where the BJP faces 15 years of anti-incumbency and the AAP makes a push to dislodge the party from all three MCDsppAbrol placed the proposal in the zonal committee meeting of the SDMCrsquos south zoneppIn it Abrol who is also deputy chairperson of the education committee stated that ldquoduring the Mughal period names of all villages in Delhi were forcibly changed by the Mughals to give an impression of life long oppression over IndiansrdquoppThis includes Humayupur village in ward number 61 Safdarjung Enclave she stated adding that it has been a long-pending demand of people of the urban village to change its name to HanumanpurppldquoKeeping in view the demand sentiments and emotions of the people of the village it would be appropriate if the village is renamed in public interestrdquo the proposal states adding that the matter be sent to the naming committee of the civic body for taking appropriate actionppThe final authority of changing the name of an urban village lies with the Delhi government said a senior officialppAbrol said ldquoA campaign has been started We will place this proposal before the Delhi government and if they want to stop it they will have to come up with a reason Else people will know that they want to please a particular communityhellip We are just trying to show how oppression was done by Mughalsrdquoppnbspp